Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto (born 1945)[1] is a mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at California State University, Northridge.[2]
Marchisotto graduated from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in 1967 and earned a master's degree from California State University, Northridge in 1977. She completed a Ph.D. in 1990 from New York University.[2] Her dissertation, The contributions of Mario Pieri to mathematics and mathematics education, was jointly supervised by Kenneth P. Goldberg and Anneli Cahn Lax.[3]
She joined the California State University, Northridge faculty in 1983.[2]. At Northridge, she also created and directed a developmental mathematics program, designed to train graduate students as teachers.[4][5][6] This developmental program earned the Noel Levitz Center National Conference on Student Retention, New Orleans: Award for Outstanding Mathematics Program in 1993.[7]
In 1995, Marchisotto became a co-author of a study edition of The Mathematical Experience (a book originally published in 1981 by Reuben Hersh and Philip J. Davis),[8] after having read the book and used it for her teaching from the early 1980s.[9]. The second edition of the book was published in 2012 and includes Epilogues written by the authors.[10]
She also co-authored an English translation of a history of mathematics by Umberto Bottazzini, Hilbert's Flute: The History of Modern Mathematics (with Bottazzini and Patricia Miller, Springer, 2016).
Marchisotto has written extensively about Mario Pieri:
Marchisotto's philosophy of teaching can be described as "humanistic"[12] Her publications on this philosophy include:
Jason Vargas owes it to a very special mentor that he is now teaching math at Colorado Mountain College. Dr. Elena Marchisotto, the director of the developmental math program at Cal State University – Northridge where Vargas attended college, recognized his potential and encouraged him to pursue teaching.
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